becca@nueces.UUCP (Becca Robertson) (04/27/89)
Does anyone out there have 0.9 yet?
mccoy@accuvax.nwu.edu (Jim McCoy ) (04/27/89)
In article <278@nueces.UUCP> becca@nueces.UUCP (Becca Robertson) writes: >Does anyone out there have 0.9 yet? While i'm sure that people will have received it by the time this message propagates, I have seen 0.9 but not received it. We had a campus Computer Faire and the NeXT people had .9 running and I had a chance to play around with it for a while. -It is still not performanced tuned; the graphics are still SLOW. -Mathmatica is REALLY SLOW (compared to a Mac IIx) but it works. -There are a few new demo applications (an object oriented drawing program, etc.) and the preferences application. -I took a look at digital librarian for a few seconds, and noticed that a few of the uppermost icons (i.e. NeXT Ref Manuals, Websters, etc.) were empty--does this mean we will be able to create documents for teh librarian (somehow i doubt it) -Didn't get a chance to check out CL or much else at the time It looks like it will be an improvement and bug-fix (like that bug called WriteNow :-) but there is nothing really earth-shaking about it. jim -- ------------------------------< Jim McCoy >------------------------------------ mccoy@accuvax.nwu.edu | "...far too many notes for my taste" .oddjob!nucsrl!blekko!holmes!mccoy | -Phantom of the Opera -------------------------(#include <disclaimer.h>)-----------------------------
gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore) (04/27/89)
/ comp.sys.next / mccoy@accuvax.nwu.edu (Jim McCoy ) / Apr 26, 1989 / >We had a >campus Computer Faire and the NeXT people had .9 running and I had a >chance to play around with it for a while. That was not 0.9; they called it "0.89". I wouldn't base any observations on it -- sales demo versions are often worse than the real thing. Jacob Gore Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept. {oddjob,chinet,att}!nucsrl!gore
edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu (04/27/89)
In article <278@nueces.UUCP> becca@nueces.UUCP (Becca Robertson) writes: >Does anyone out there have 0.9 yet? This is what I heard. Two weeks ago, the 0.9 golden master OD was ready, but they had problems copying the disk so that all possible drives could read it. NeXT had decided to try to obtain a bunch of out-of-specification drives to test their disk on, in hopes that if their disk was readable on these drives, it would be readable on all drives. Only time will tell :-) The last I heard (yesterday), we at Berkeley should expect it "any day now". Only time will tell :-) Edward Moy Principal Programmer - Macintosh & Unix Workstation Support Services Workstation Software Support Group University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 edmoy@violet.Berkeley.EDU ucbvax!violet!edmoy
mpm@berlin.acss.umn.edu (Mark P. McCahill) (04/28/89)
In article <23685@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu writes: > In article <278@nueces.UUCP> becca@nueces.UUCP (Becca Robertson) writes: > >Does anyone out there have 0.9 yet? > > The last I heard (yesterday), we at Berkeley should expect it "any day now". > > Only time will tell :-) > I just finished talking to our NeXT salesman. He said that he was "confident that 0.9 will be in our hands by the end of next week". At least all the salepeople are saying the same thing. Mark McCahill Microcomputer & Workstation Networks Group University of Minnesota internet: mpm@berlin.acss.umn.edu BITNET: mpm@UMNACVX
dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) (04/28/89)
In article <310@berlin.acss.umn.edu> mpm@berlin.acss.umn.edu (Mark P. McCahill) writes: >I just finished talking to our NeXT salesman. He said that he was >"confident that 0.9 will be in our hands by the end of next week". >At least all the salepeople are saying the same thing. The NeXT people I talked to this week said we will positively have it by TODAY (we do not). Now I hear another week. This whole business is really starting to bug me. I can understand delays, but they ought to stop promising what they aren't going to deliver. -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: dorner@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner IfUMust: (217) 244-1765
BSD@PSUVM.BITNET (Scott Dickson) (04/29/89)
In article <647@accuvax.nwu.edu.NWU.EDU>, mccoy@accuvax.nwu.edu (Jim McCoy ) says: > >In article <278@nueces.UUCP> becca@nueces.UUCP (Becca Robertson) writes: > > -I took a look at digital librarian for a few seconds, and > noticed that a few of the uppermost icons (i.e. NeXT Ref > Manuals, Websters, etc.) were empty--does this mean we will > be able to create documents for teh librarian (somehow i > doubt it) > You can already create documents for the librarian. It isn't documented anywhere I could find, but it is possible. There is a directory under .NeXT in each home called targets. This directory contains all of the icons for the librarian, as well as a file called #Targets. The #Targets file contains commands to tell it what goes in each well. For each well, there are several fields. It seems like the ones title icon position are all required. These specify the title of the document, the icon to use, and the well number for that doc. The icons are all .ps files in the targets directory. In addition, there can be either a field directory that tells what directory contains the document, or a field message that tells what other app to launch from here. Examples will clear this up. For the NeXT documentation, the entry looks like: title NeXT Documentation icon binder.ps position 1 directory /MyDisk/Library/Documentation/NeXT For the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, it looks like title Oxford Quotations icon oxford.ps position 5 message Quotation [quote] For directories, the directory must contain an index created by the index program. This one is also not well documented and is somewhat buggy. If you follow its leads and read the shell scripts that it runs, you can pretty much figure it out as well. So, the upshot is you can add your own documents. I have already added Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech, all of the US Presidential Inaugural addresses through Nixon, John Milton's Paradise Lost, and a couple of Dr. Seuss books. I hope this doesn't change too much in 0.9, but I hear that index is supposed to get better. ------- --Scott Dickson Graphics Research Programmer Penn State Univ. Computation Center Bitnet: BSD@PSUVM.BITNET "And, we'll keep the light on for ya."
sstanfie@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (skot) (05/01/89)
In article <89118.215524BSD@PSUVM> BSD@PSUVM.BITNET (Scott Dickson) writes: >So, the upshot is you can add your own documents. I have already >added Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech, >all of the US Presidential Inaugural addresses through Nixon, >John Milton's Paradise Lost, and a couple of Dr. Seuss books. >--Scott Dickson Are any of these files on ftp sites? I'm wondering how to add to the library (you can only look through Shakespear so many times). -- <<< skot +/+ sstanfie@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU - {pyramid|sdsu|ucsd}!polyslo!sstanfie